From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:34:13 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] lisp challenge In-Reply-To: <20180216210114.GA27574@mcvoy.com> References: <20180216210114.GA27574@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Friday, February 16, 2018, Larry McVoy wrote: > So people have called me on the claim that lisp is not fast. Here's a > rebuttal. > > Please write a clone of GNU grep in lisp to demonstrate that the claim > that lisp is slower that C is false. > > Best of luck and I'll be super impressed if you can get even remotely > close without dropping into C or assembler. If you do get close, I > will with draw my claim, stand corrected, point future "lisp is slow" > people at the lisp-grep, and buy you dinner and/or drinks. > > --lm > Good challenge. I consider anything that came out of MIT's ITS/Lisp (including Emacs) culture as totally opposite to the UNIX/C culture. Complexity vs. minimalism are the best words to explain both approaches to computing. --Andy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: